Cinema companies Regal Entertainment and Cinemark have decided not to carry British director Gabriel Range’s Death of a President which shows President George W. Bush assassinated after giving a speech to a business organization.  AMC hasn’t determined whether or not to show the picture yet.  How or how not this may affect your choice of where to see movies is of course up to you.  I report, you deride.

Death of a President is the latest in the burgeoning business of leftist wish-fulfillment docudramas, from John Kerry’s congressional testimony through Oliver Stone’s Kennedy movie through Farenheit 9/11 through “The West Wing” through Fitzmas to present, all of which manifest the perverse desire to see America represented as worse than it is, at least insofar as it needs to be lectured to and indoctrinated by enlightened liberals.  None of this is new.  When I take my children to school in the morning, I see bumperstickers on teachers’ cars saying that it’s too bad they’re so busy teaching, because otherwise they’d run the country properly, or Bushit, or US Out of Vermont.  If I park in Burlington of a Friday night with my Bush 2004 bumpersticker on my car, there’s a pretty good chance that I’ll come back to find it’s been keyed (again).  These are the same people who bemoan the decline of civil discourse, of course.

As far as I know, nobody has yet offered to produce a movie covering the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, with the steamy pizza delivery scene in it, and yet a) that would be a representation of something that actually happened, and b) it would be less pornographic than Death of a President.

Were I to give full rein to my own perversities, I’d like to see a picture in which a George Galloway Islamist-pandering politician is kidnapped in Iraq while on a bluster tour, and subsequently castrated and cornholed by his captors.  Har har har.  It would be amusing to see the NYT building blown up by terrorists in an act of symbolic violence.  How gratifying.  An expatriate American blogger in Brazil is turned on by his sockpuppets and killed.  Bwahahahaha!

I’m just sayin’, if I were that sort of person.

UPDATE:  For clarity’s sake, I mean by “turned on,” above, “turned against.” Sheesh.  You guys really are sick.